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Added 2026-09-30 · Last edited 2026-09-30

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[Verse 1]
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire, right up off the street
You and I should meet

[Verse 2]
Junebug skippin' like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end
To it all

[Chorus 1]
And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
To the Earth, below

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see

[Chorus 2]
We don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement
Lamented and assured

[Bridge]
To the lights
And towns below
Faster than
The speed of sound
Faster than
We thought we'd go
Beneath the sound
Of hope

[Verse 4]
(To die young) Justine never knew the rules
(To die young) Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
(To die young) No apologies ever need be made
(To die young) I know you better than you fake it

[Chorus 1]
To see – that we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed
To the Earth, below

[Outro]
(To die young) The street heats the urgency of now
(To die young) As you see, there's no one around

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